Looks like a taxi!
Worst car you've ever been in?
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Gazcw
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White Vantage S, but that may have been the bonkers driver and not the car!
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I took my bike test in 1978 on a RD250I managed the 50cc at 16 (legally) but naturally had a pre-restricted one, up to 250cc at 17 until passed ones test then unlimited. Jeanette who is just a year younger than me left it until she was 17/18 and got the early 'part 1 test' riding around cones and was limited to a 125cc. Now it is far more restrictive with A, A1 & A2 all requiring a pre-road test around the cones and a theory at each stage I believe!
Never had any kind of a lesson other that the guy at the shop when I picked the FS1e up
This is the clutch, these are the brakes , this is the gears
The test was a guy in a brown suit with a clipboard watching me ride round the block
One lap he pulled me in and said I was to keep riding round , somewhere on the test route I shall step to the kerb , raise my hand for you to perform an emergency stop
I went round and as I came back there he was , hiding behind a post box , it was like something on monty python , as soon as he stood up I stopped dead, passed
One guy i knew took his test , a few of us were on holiday so turned up to take the ****
He came along the straight , bolt upright , 29mph , saw us , you bustards
Next lap he did a 100 yard wheelie , still passed
Gazcw
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How is the Manta though Phil?What a Great thread I can only say I've only ever had Cool cars even the French ones
DLax69
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...and to be fair, it says "ever been in"...surely you have a tale there, Phil!
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On the back burner at the minute with lots of other things happening at the minute.
Better than money in the Bank though.
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Might embarrass you though mate experienced a few Yank Tanks when working in Saudi Arabia.
Trans Am 6.6 that should have gone really fast but didn't and a front wheel drive Cadillac that was different.
My father had a Chrysler New Yorker very Boogie Nights.
The American Cars always had Great Air Con though.
On that note so does anything not using current gases.
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Agreed...those 70s fuel-economy-focused duds were awful. I also still cannot deal with torque steer. Speaking of gases, when I was a teen I worked at a fire control plant (made detectors and suppression systems for mills). The ritual each spring was to evacuate everyone's condensers and refill with either Halon 1211 or 1301 from the tanks at the docks...you could hang meat in my cars, regardless of outdoor temps.